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At UFC 246, Maycee Barber experienced the first loss of her professional MMA career, giving up a lopsided decision to the veteran Roxanne Modafferi. Unfortunately, Barber also sustained a complete ACL tear early in this fight, which will keep her out of action for some time.<\/p>\n

In a prepared statement to MMA Fighting<\/a>, Barber opened up on this first taste of defeat. She says her goal of becoming the youngest champion in UFC history is unchanged.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe loss has not shifted my goals in the sport at all,\u201d Barber wrote. \u201cIt has added more goals to the pre-existing ones. I\u2019m still gonna be the youngest champion in UFC history.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her statement, Barber also opened up on her injury.<\/p>\n

\u201dI realized that the muscles surrounding my knee were starting to want to protect it,\u201d Barber wrote. \u201cRound two started, and I realized the pain had gotten worse (and the) instability had gotten greater. I don\u2019t remember a lot, but I remember being slow and seeing her jab come and wanting to step back. With that half a second extra of thinking, she caught me with the jab. I still stepped back, but my leg wasn\u2019t there. The stability had left me.<\/p>\n

\u201dI couldn\u2019t connect to my brain to my leg,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Maycee Barber went on to explain that she attempted to disguise her injury so that Modafferi wouldn’t see it as a target. Yet when the cage-side doctor entered the Octagon to observe her knee \u2014 only to allow her to keep fighting \u2014 her cover was blown.<\/p>\n

\u201dI was doing everything I could to disguise the fact that I had been compromised,\u201d Barber wrote. \u201cI feel like the fact that the doctor completely gave away that I was dealing with something. It also made the injury more prominent to me when I was trying to push it out of my head for the fight. Had it been me fighting, if I would have seen the doctor stepping in and checking someone\u2019s knee, that would instantly be the thing that I target.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dI feel as though the doctor should have come up to me and ask me if I was good, and then listened to my response,\u201d Barber continued. \u201cI personally have never seen anyone sat down in the middle of fight and had a doctor (check) their knee stability, and then proceed to get up and announce to the ref and everyone else there was a small ACL tear and that (the fighter) was \u2018fine.\u2019 I knew something in my knee was torn and I wasn\u2019t fine, but I knew that I could be in the fight, and then after the fight was over, I could cry and deal with it.<\/p>\n

\u201dThere is absolutely no benefit or reason for the doctor to check me if he was going to let me continue, and there most definitely wasn\u2019t a reason to announce the injury and let me continue knowing full well that he had just \u2018shown my hand.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, Barber is keen to heal up, and with a little luck, fight again this year.<\/p>\n

\u201dI am hoping to make my return and fight again by the end of 2020,\u201d Barber said.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201dThis sh*t sucks,\u201d she added. \u201cWhat a life, and I wouldn\u2019t go back and change a single thing. Losses happen, injuries are real, and champions overcome all. I\u2019ll be back and better than before. This is the life I chose, and I want to live every part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think the future holds for Maycee Barber after UFC 246?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 1\/27\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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